Non-refillable bottle.



J. A. STODGELL.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8. I914.

l 1 34,242., Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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JAMES ALEXANDER STODGELL, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application filed. June 8, 1914. Serial No. 843,813.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, James ALEXANDER STODGELL, of the city of Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have lnvented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to a non-refillable bottle and the object of the inventlon is to provide an inexpensive and efiiclent bottle of the above class which is of such a nature that the bottle can be refilled by the manufacturer while safeguarding the ultimate consumer against unscrupulous dealers.

With the above object in view the invention consists essentially in a bottle having a ribbed neck, a cap piece presenting a valve opening and seat, a head piece provlded with a deep flange presenting a shoulder and having also an outlet opening therein, a valve, a guard piece associated with the valve and a fastening band connecting the head piece to the neck of the bottle, the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claims.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the device applied on a bottle. Fig. 2 represents an enlarged detailed longitudinal sectional view through the neck of the bottle, the neck being shown in pouring position. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the head piece. Fi at is a plan view of the guard. Fig. 5

is a side view of the guard. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the cap. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the valve.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

1 represents a bottle of which 2 is the neck.

The neck is provided with a series of circumferentially directed ribs 3 for a purpose later described.

4 is a cap bearing on the end of the neck and provided with a valve opening or outlet passage 5, the cap of itself forming in reality the valve seat.

6 represents a head piece fitted with a centrally located outlet opening 7 and provided with a deep flange 8 presenting a continuous external shoulder 9.

The inner side of the head piece is formed with a V-shaped groove 10 which extends between the opening 7 and the inner wall of v the flange. The object of this will be later explained.

Th head piece is designed to sit on the cap, being the same diameter as the cap and it is held permanently to the neck of the bottle by a band 11 passing around the neck and head piece and having the upper end rolled over the shoulder 9 as indicated at 12, and the lower end rolled over the ribs 3 as shown at 13.

14 represents a valve and 15 a guard, these parts being inserted within the head piece prior to fastening the same to the bottle by means of the band.

The valv is supplied in the present case with four outstanding wings 16 which,when the valve is placed within the flange of the head piece form escape passage-ways 17 for the fluid past the edges of the valve.

The guard is of smaller diameter than the valve and it is provided with similar extending legs 18 having the extremities thereof V-shaped as indicated at 18 and has further the body portion thereof between the legs formed to present concentric V-shaped ribs 19.

The V-shaped ends of the legs are designed when the bottle is upended to fit into the V-shaped groove 10. The ribs 19 are constructed so that their faces are parallel with the faces of the groove. Accordingly when the bottle is inverted the guard is centered by the legs above the outlet opening 7 and there is a more or less V-shaped passage retained between the valve and the head piece.

Considering the bottle with liquid therein, it will be seen that in the normal position of the bottle the same will be closed by the valve which in the upright position of the bottle will remain seated on the cap. Upon the bottle being turned to pouring position, the guard and valve both slide in the head piece in a direction away from the cap, until the legs of the guard engage the inner grooved face of the head piece in which position they are shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The liquid in the bottle is free to escape first through the opening 5, then through the passages 17, then through the V-shaped openings appearing between the legs and finally out through the opening 7.

It is pointed out that in all pouring positions the legs will assume the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing as the weight of the moving parts is suflicient in the inclined horizontal by contents are genuine.

vrefill his own bottles pouring position of the bottle to force the legs forward and center them in the groove 10. On the other hand in all positions between the pouring and upright position the valve is held closed, in the upright position by the natural tendency of the valve of itself to seat in positions approaching the the action of the V-shaped ends of the legs which in riding down the grooves 10 effect the downward forcing of the guard and consequently the valve from the head piece and toward the cap.

7 The special V-shape of the ribs of the guard will prevent all tampering with the valve by means of a wire as they will naturally deflect an inserted wire up toward the cap and prevent the passage of the same downwardly in a direction toward the valve.

The band can be stamped or otherwise marked with the manufacturers name so that when a filled bottle is examined and the proper name appears one knows that the If the proper marking is not found on the band of the bottle it will be obvious that the contents are fraudulent.

A manufacturer can, after recalling them, by cutting the band and replacing a new band after the bottle has been filled.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a bottle stopper,

. plied with a centrally located outlet opening,

a V-shaped channel on the inside'of the head piece and encircling said opening, a

guard comprising a disk provided with outwardly extending legs on the periphery thereof, said legs having V-shaped extremcopiel of this patent may be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.- r

a head piece supities and ribs extending between said legs beveled on their outside to'the same angle as theV of the legs, and a seat for sald guard,

the V' legs ofsaid guard being adapted to stantially V-shaped groove formed in the" inner face of the head piece between the outlet opening and the inner wall of the flange, a band enveloping the neck of the bottle and having the lower end pressed into the ribs and the upper end thereof pressed over the i shoulder, a winged valve slidably mounted within the flange of the head piece and normally closing the opening in the cap piece and a guard of less diameter than the valve lar extending legs having their extremities formed in a V-shape to fit the V-shaped groove of the head piece and provided further on the upper side with V-shaped ribs bearing on the valve and provided with simi-a;

located between the bases of the legs, as and .j:

for the purpose specified.

' Signed at Winnipeg, this 15th day'of May, 1914. V 7 7 JAMES ALEXANDER STODGELL.

In the presence of i 'RoxBAUeH, S. SInvnRT.

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